03-27-2015, 04:56 PM
I wouldn't put too much stock in Honda's "endorsement."
Motor-vehicle manufacture and sales has become a POLITICAL business these days. It started with safety regs...which of course on the surface were non-political. Then on to EPA standards - and when mileage standards came out, it was the EPA which was administering them. Oddly, most imported/foreign-based-manufacturer cars got pretty close to the EPA Rated Mileage; whereas the American Big Three Plus AMC, were in real-life WILDLY below.
Politics.
Now we have government DEMANDING the EXCLUSIVE sale of rotgut, inferior (by any objective standard) motor fuels. And it is GOVERNMENT which can block emissions or fuel-economy test results, or launch a witch-hunt sham legal investigation (Toyota "runaway" incident, which was so obviously staged a non-driver would know it). And GOVERNMENT, with moronic and senile non-technical legislators, want this fuel sold and used and want manufacturers to endorse it.
Honda no doubt is remembering what happened to Toyota when Toyota balked.
Motor-vehicle manufacture and sales has become a POLITICAL business these days. It started with safety regs...which of course on the surface were non-political. Then on to EPA standards - and when mileage standards came out, it was the EPA which was administering them. Oddly, most imported/foreign-based-manufacturer cars got pretty close to the EPA Rated Mileage; whereas the American Big Three Plus AMC, were in real-life WILDLY below.
Politics.
Now we have government DEMANDING the EXCLUSIVE sale of rotgut, inferior (by any objective standard) motor fuels. And it is GOVERNMENT which can block emissions or fuel-economy test results, or launch a witch-hunt sham legal investigation (Toyota "runaway" incident, which was so obviously staged a non-driver would know it). And GOVERNMENT, with moronic and senile non-technical legislators, want this fuel sold and used and want manufacturers to endorse it.
Honda no doubt is remembering what happened to Toyota when Toyota balked.